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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 52, 2 March 1871, Page 2

Parliamentary Reports. — One of the candidates for Eallarafc having promised that, under a certain contingency, he will, if re-elected, move the extrusion and exclusion of reporters from the Assembly, the Australasian thus strougly, but with great truth, comments thereon : — "We hope the contingency will arise, so that newspaper readers may enjoy the boon which is thus foreshadowed. Imagine our daily papers served up to us at breakfast time divested of those columns of dreary platitudes and turgid fustian which, while Parliament is sitting, occupy the space which would be otherwise devoted to much, more interesting matter. When the fate of empires is trembling in the balance^ and every scrap of intelligence from Europe is full of the deepest interest, what can be more provoking than to know that Tiews of this kind is competed to be | thrust aside in order to make room for a dissertation by Mr, Jawkins, M.L.A., upon some subject upon which he knows nothing, and upon which he is incompetent to express himself grammatically ; or to allow, the public to be made acquainted with what Mr. Slauger thinks of his oppo- , nent, Mr. Stinger, and with what ineffable contempt Mr. Stinger regards tbje scurrilous diatribes of the hon. gentleman below the gangway ? And, if Parliamentary twaddle, as contra-distinguished from Parliamentary oratory, were to cease to be reported, the springs of the former woukl very soon dry up. There would be less talk and more work. The transaction of public business would be expedited, aud those sanguine optimists who dream of the arrival of a time when 'Government by palaver ' will have become a thing of the past, might begin to fix a conjectural date for the consummation of their hopes."